Folio Society books for children – in pictures

Kenneth Grahame's classic children's tale The Wind in the Willows was voted Guardian readers' favourite Folio Society book for children

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Charles van Sandwyk's thoughtful illustrations capture the rural idyll and whimsy of Grahame's The Wind in the Willows

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Illustration: Charles van Sandwyk/Folio Society

Van Sandwyk adopts a number of styles to illustrate Kenneth Grahame's tale: from the notebook picture ...

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Illustration: Charles van Sandwyk/Folio Society

... to the more elegantly detailed illustration

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Toad: one of the most complicated and memorable characters of children's literature

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Charles Robinson proved himself one of the masters of the style of La Belle Époque in his illustrations for Hodgson Burnett's The Secret Garden

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Sara Ogilvie has taken some of her cues from American illustrators of the 50s with her artwork for John Masefield's The Midnight Folk

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Francis Mosley chooses bold black and white to illustrate the cavernous world of JRR Tolkien's The Hobbit

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Illustration: Francis Mosley/Folio Society

Grahame Baker-Smith takes a more contemporary approach to depicting a classic children's character, Carlo Collodi's Pinocchio

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Illustration: Grahame Baker-Smith/Folio Society

The White Rabbit from Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland, as captured by John Tenniel

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Illustration: John Tenniel/Folio Society